Introduction

In its letter to Gavilan College on June 29, 2007, the
Accreditation Commission requested the college provide a progress report that
addresses Recommendation 1:

Planning, Evaluation, and Program Review:

In order for the college to ensure an ongoing,
systematic, and cyclical process that includes evaluation, planning, resource
allocation, implementation, and re-evaluation, the team recommends the
following evaluation and improvement steps:

The
college formally structure and document all aspects of the planning process by
which budget requests connect to program reviews and their accompanying unit
plans and ensure the consistent application of the planning procedures
throughout the college (I.B.3)(II.A.2.c,e,f)(II.B.1)(II.C.2).

The
college regularly evaluate and document the college's progress on the
achievement of goals outlined in the strategic plan and individual unit plans
and use the results of this evaluation to improve student learning and
institutional effectiveness (I.B.2, I.B.4)(II.A.2.c,e,f)(II.B.4)(II.C.2).

The
college develop mechanisms to evaluate regularly all of the college's planning
and resource allocation processes (I.B.6) (II.A.2.c, e, f)(II.B.1, 4)(II.C.2).

In preparing the necessary process changes, the college
deconstructed the three components of the recommendation and then considered
the team's evaluation comments in support of the recommendation. For ease of
determining the actions taken by Gavilan College since the team's visit, this
Progress Report has been formatted to isolate the comments of concern to the
team at the time of the visit and the actions taken by the college to address
those concerns. The accreditation standard requirements were also considered
when implementing corrective action. To ensure the college has not misinterpreted
the intent of the Commission's recommendation and to ensure the college
properly addressed specific instances that resulted in the recommendation, this
response has been formatted so that each team evaluation comment and
accreditation standard cited in the recommendation are addressed.